City street-directory.



Patented July 5,

P. NOGUIER.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.,

PAUL NOGUIER, 0F NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR 0F ONE-HALF 0F NEW- YORK, N. Y.

TO CHAR-LES ANDRO,

CITY STREET-DIRECTORY.

Speccaton of Letters Patent. Application filed December 29, 1909.

Serial No. 535,493.

To all whom tmc-y concern:

Be it known that I, PAUL NOGUIER, a citizen of France, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved City Street-Directory, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of the invention is to provide a new vand .improved city street directory, arranged to enable the user to readily locate desired points at any one of the streets, avenues and the like, to obtain all the desired information as to transportation lines, such as elevated railroads, surface street cars, subways, etc., at or near any given point or the nearest station thereto, and also to obtain distances between points. For the purpose mentioned, use is made of a book made up of two sets of pages, of which one set of pages forms an index and is provided with page numbers, arbitrary characters and transportation information indicated by the said arbitrary characters, each of the pages of the other set of pages bearing the name of a street, a column giving the names of the intersecting streets and a column containing numerical designations of the pages of the index associated with an arbitrary character corresponding to the arbitrary characters heading the information on the corresponding index page.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represent-ed in the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both views.

Figure l is a face view of the book open at a page; and Fig. 2 is an index page of the book showing the detail information relative to transportation.

The city street directory is preferably in the form of a book made up of two sets of pages A and B, of which the pages A (see Fig. l) contain full information as to 4each street, avenue or other highway, byway or place of the city, while the other set of pages B (Fig. 2) ,forms an index containing detail informationl as to transportation. Each of the pages A bears the name C of a street, avenue or other highway, byway or place of the city and also the terminals of the said street: for instance, Myrtle avenue from 351 Fulton st. east to borough line. Below the name C is arranged a column D,

' containing the names of the streets intersecting Myrtle avenue, and to the left yof this column D are arranged two columns E and E giving lthe house numbers at4 the corners of Myrtle avenue with the intersecting streets indicated in the column D. In case a street does not cross another street, then a mark, such as a star, indicates the fact, thus, as shown in Fig. l, Jefferson and Troutman streets do not cross Myrtle avenue, but begin or terminate at Myrtle avenue. To the right of the column D is a column F containing numerals F arbitrary characters F2 and sig-ns F3, andto the right of the column F are two columns G and G indicating miles and subdivisions, calculated according to predetermined lines laid Patented July 5, 1910.

out on a map of the city, the said miles and o subdivisions of the columns G and Gr being opposite the names of the streets in the column D and the marking in the column F. It is understood that the miles and subdivisions are derived from the usual quadrangl'e plotting of a city map, the subdivisions being preferably given in sixteenths of a mile, on the basis of sixteen city blocks to the mile.

The page A is preferably provided with a heading H, containing signs H corresponding to the signs Fs and explanations H2 of the said signs: thus, for instance, the sign H l refers to a subway or elevated railroad station, while the sign H refers to surface and elevated railroad transfers, and so on.

Each of the leaves B is provided with a page numeral I and ters J corresponding to the .arbitrary characters F 2 in the column F of a page A. Each of the arbitrary characters J heads a legend K giving detail information as to transportation for a corresponding crossing street given in the columns D and F. For instance, in the column F in alinement with Sumner avenue is found (8A), of which the numeral 8 refers to the corresponding page number I on the leaf B, shown in Fig. 2, while the arbitrary character, the letter A, refers to the arbitrary character J on this page 8 of the index leaf B, thus giving the information that Sumner avenue can be reached by way of Myrtle avenue from Fulton Ferry and Manhattan, via Fulton, Myrtle avenue to Ridgewood; transfers to 9B Sumner ave. at Myrtle avenue and Sumner;

Y mation. The brackets F3v in the column F,

inclosing the 8A- previously mentioned, correspond-to the parentheses ,I-I which means surface and elevated transfers are given' at Sumner avenue at the crossing withv Myrtle avenue. l

--It is understood that the numerals F', the

arbitrary characters F2 andthe signs Fare combined to enable the user of the book to quickly obtain the desired information, and

the said numerals, characters and signs arev correspondingly combined or used individually; thus brackets around a numeral F( vindicate a station-of the elevated railroad Vor subway lines whichv the numeral represents, and `parenthesesY and brackets (l j)l around a numeral F indicate a station at which a passenger on the [elevated yrailroad can change to another elevated railroad, surface or subway line for the same fare. Parentheses around a num- Vber indicate that the line represented by such a number transfers to another at the crossing indicated. Four stars indicate that no surface linerunsrover thevplace named,

but the nearest line is represented by the numberor'numbers following, as indicated Y in the lower portion of Fig. 1 relative to the matter in the column F pertaining to 91st st. It is understood that I do not limit myself to the particular' form of the signs employed, as the same can be readilyk varied without deviating from my invention.

lI-Iavingthus described my invention, I

claim as new and desire to secure by LettersV Patent: c Y

1'. yA city street directory, comprising a v book made up of two sets of pages, of which one setof pages forms an index and is Yprovided with page numbers, arbitrary characters and transportation information headed by the said arbitrary characters, eachV of the `pages of the other set of `pages bearing the kname of a street, a column giving the names of the intersecting streets, and a column containing numerical designations of they pages of the index associated with an arbitrary character corresponding to the arbitrary characters heading the information `on the corresponding index page.

2.--A" city street directory, comprising a book made-up of two sets 'of pages, of which one set of pages formsan index and is provided with page numbers, arbitrary characters and transportation information headed by the saidV arbitrary characters, each of the pages of the otherset of pages bearing the name of a street, a column lgiving the names e of the intersecting streets, and a column containing numerical designations of the pages of the index associated with an arbitrary character corresponding to the arbitrary characters heading the information on the corresponding index page, and signs inclosing the said page number and its arbitrary character. l' A f 3. A cityY street directory, comprising a book made up of two setsof pages, of which one set of pages forms an index and is provided with page numbers, arbitrary characters and transportation information headed by the saidl arbitrary characters, each of the pages of the otherset of pages bearing the name-of a street, ay column giving the names of the intersecting streets, and a column containing numerical designations of the pages of the index' associated with an arbitrary character corresponding to the arbitrary characters heading the information on the corresponding index ypage,and a dis` tance guide indicating thel distances in miles and subdivisions, and calculated according to predetermined lines laid out on a map of the city.

In testimony whereof I khave signed my name to this specication in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. v Y

. j PAUL NOGUIER. Witnesses:

THEO. G. Hos'rnn,

PHILIP D. RoLLHAUs. 

